Goethe Quotations:

Famous Inspirational Quotations

Johann von Goethe quotations are inspirational, motivational, and life-affirming.

Goethe (1749-1832)

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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

The glory's nought, the deed is all.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Every man hears only what he understands.

After it has discharged its task, the soul moves with greater ease and enjoys life. There is nothing more wretched than well-being without work. This is enough to make the finest of nature's gifts turn sour.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

If we take people only as they are, we make them worse; if we treat them as though they were what they ought to be, we steer them in the right direction.

Whatever good results I find in my reflections come to me when I am walking.

Nothing- Goethe

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Open the second shutter, so that more light can come in.

He is dangerous who has nothing to lose.

The style of a writer is a faithful representative of his mind; therefore, if any man would write in a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts; and if any man would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Character calls forth character.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

[The genius] is especially inspired with the good spirit of recognizing quickly what is useful to him.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Whereas in my youth I succeeded daily and under all circumstances, I now succeed only periodically and under favorable conditions.

No dusty logic can divine
The meaning of a sacred sign.

The highest joy of man should be the growth of personality.

Begin It- Goethe

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